Re: Remove all ACL's in a directory

Sacha Michel Mallais <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
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On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Richard Peskin wrote:

> Is there a way to recursively remove all ACL's in a directory? I tried "chmod -R -a#  0 [directory path] " (where 0 is a possible ACL number id), but this doesn't work. chmod -a# 0 filename works for a single file. PErhaps I need a script to do this?

You can use find to do the recursive part if that's the part that's broken:

find /path/to/search -type d -exec chmod -a# 0 \{\}\;

That assumes your chmod command actually does what you want. The \{\} part is the found directory path, the \; terminates the exec command, and note that I use tcsh, so the escapes are for that shell, not sure what you need in bash.


sacha


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